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The Mizo District Council delegation met prime minister Indira Gandhi in May 1971 and demanded full-fledged statehood for Mizoram. The Indian government offered to convert the Mizo Hills into a Union Territory (UT) in July 1971. On 21 January 1972 official declaration of UT was made with the name Mizoram.
Prior to independence, the people of the district rallied behind a "Mizo" identity and formed a political party called Mizo Union. In 1954, the Government of India accepted their demand and changed the district's name to Mizo District. [13] The first Mizo chief to give up his chiefdom and chieftainship was Khawvelthanga of Maubuang (1885–1971).
Mizoram [a] is a landlocked state in northeastern India, with Aizawl as its capital and largest city. It shares 722-kilometre (449 mi) of international borders with Bangladesh to the west, and Myanmar to the east and south, with domestic borders with the Indian states of Assam, Manipur, and Tripura. [5]
Mizo chieftainship refers to the system of chieftainship used by the Mizo people, which historically operated as a gerontocracy.The chieftain system persisted among the various clans and tribes from the precolonial era through to the British colonial period and Indian independence briefly.
The Mizoram Assembly House in Aizawl, seat of the state legislative assembly. Politics in Mizoram, a state in Northeast India had been dominated by the Mizo National Front and the Indian National Congress. As of 2024, the Zoram People's Movement is the ruling party in the states's legislative assembly.
The Government of Mizoram (Mizo: Mizoram Sawrkâr) also known as the State Government of Mizoram, or locally as State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Mizoram and its 11 districts. It consists of an executive, led by the Governor of Mizoram, a judiciary and a legislative branch.
Mizoram People's Conference – Vacant [b] (President's rule) N/A 10 November 1978 8 May 1979 179 days N/A (2) T. Sailo: Aizawl North 8 May 1979 4 May 1984 4 years, 362 days 3rd (1979 election) Mizoram People's Conference: 3 Lal Thanhawla: Serchhip: 5 May 1984 20 August 1986 2 years, 107 days 4th (1984 election) Indian National Congress: 4 ...
Currently, in Mizoram, the Roman script is used to write the Mizo language using the Hunterian transliteration. Locally, it is commonly known as the "Mizo A AW B", or "Mizo Hawrawp." [23] The Mizo language can be read by 91.3% of the population of Mizoram, making the state to have the third-highest literacy rates in India. [24]